I mean, we can do this with any mediocre white boy right-wing power fantasy.
Indeed. I certainly have no interest in the continued life of many people, but that does not make me a repressed assassin. Of course theprestige likes to be contrarian and snarky as a rule, but assassination is a thing by itself, and doing it or even advocating it is not the same as wishing a person gone.
You can do it with anything. The depressing reality is that most of us are pretty much powerless to affect the broader forces that control our lives. So we sometimes retreat to fantasy, or wishful thinking.
Its pretty much why western and action genres in media exist.
Exactly this.
Also romance, I'd say. I know people who live lives purer than the most innocent nun but consume literature that would make a Borgia blush.
What does this mean? It's not too late. It wasn't too late back when people first started the Trump=Hitler nonsense.
I'm referring to the cliché that everyone wants to travel back in time and shoot Hitler before the bad stuff. See Futurama, etc., etc. (personally I don't think it would have solved anything, but that's besides the point).
That's a lot of words to say you're opposed to political assassination, preferring a policy of wait and see until it's too late anyway.
I prefer a policy of convincing fascism-sympathisers to stop being fascism-sympathisers. There's really no other way to stop it, even in my wildest power fantasies, even in Nazi Germany. The other options are only effective once it's too late anyway.
Oversimplified, but generally yes.
A less cartoonish and simple-minded way of putting it is that some people are worried about democracy and its' standards.
I can't speak for everyone, but while optimistic perhaps, I don't think it's too late. Even though I think it might be, and think that those most empowered to make a change will likely miss the chance, I think that at this point there still is a chance short of assassination, and that to predict the worst is a poor decision even if, in retrospect one finds the worst has happened. A habit of pre-emptively cutting to the chase every time we see a trend going the wrong way is, I think, an unhealthy habit in and of itself. I say this even though as I look at it I find myself feeling a bit uncomfortably Kantian to do so, but I think one can have values without absolutes.
Umm.... given Trump's complete incompetence as a businessman, I doubt anyone would be able to help him run a successful casino.
From an imaginary/fantasy point of view, an assasination makes more sense than trying to "divert" someone like Trump or Hitler, because it 1) takes less resources, and 2) is a more "finite" solution (i.e. you don't have to worry if you set up Trump to actually be successful at running a casino that he still won't enter politics at some point, or that if you found a patron for hitler's paintings, that eventually they might have a falling out.)
There are a lot of "skeptics" who make unsubstantiated claims and insinuations.
Right now that is correct. But it not like the Left is not capabl eof terroism. Look at the radical groups like the SLA in the late 60's and Earlier Sevewnties.